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J. VAN SLYKE. McHEMBY, A GKBXAN boy, NOT 4 j««» old, resid­ ing In Springfield, Ohio, regularly emokes from ton to t*dw «*•" d»ily« and at one time VM notsitMed with leas than twenty. His father keeps a saloon, and the lad's tastes are mainly gratified by patrons of the bar. THKKX were 93ty350 bales of leal to* tweco exported from Cnba last year, against 119£60 bales in 1882. The •cigars sent ont numbered 96,600,000, 750,000 in excess of last year's exports. Thirteen million packages of cigar­ ettes were shipped, 600,000 law than the preceding year. "WASHIHGTOH Star: Work has been eommenced on Mr. Joaquin Miller's log <oabin, on the lot recently purchased by him on the brow of the hill at the head of Sixteenth street The cabin will con­ tain two apartments of convenient size. These will be lined with fur, and it is stated by the residents of the neighbor­ hood that the Poet of the Sierras in­ tends to mount a stuffed bear upon a persimmon tree in front of his door. The cabin is very picturesqqejjj. situat «d among some fine oaks. AT Leeds, lately, Mr. Artftrtt Wicols •delivered a lecture on "Snakes and Snake Charming," in which he gave an instance of the appearance of the sea serpent wliich occurred in his own ex­ perience. It turned out to be the body -of a dead whale, around which were collected thousands of gullB and alba­ trosses, and which simulated the shape and form of a monster with a mane and long tail. It is a pity that every master of a vessel from which the sea serpent is seen has not oourage enough to steer dose to it,' so that its real nature may fee made evident. ^HOVOH there has been but one poet ennobled in England, there have been numbers of trades people. John Cov­ entry, from whom the present Earl of Coventry is descended, was a mercer of London, and Lord Mayor in 1425; Stephen Brown, a grocer,gave Viscount Montague to the peerage; the Capels, Earls of Essex, are descended from a draper; Edward Osborne, founder of the Dukes of Leeds, was a cloth worker; from William Craven, a tailor, sprang the Earl of Craven, just deceased; Lord Dudley and Ward is descended from William Ward, a working jeweler. REPORTS from State Auditors of the eeven leading Western hog States have been recently published, giving the number of hogs returned for taxation this year' and last. The reports are from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, showing a short, age of 658,138 hogs, as compared with last year. In all the States save Illi­ nois, and Nebraska, there was a ^ivrpiuw It should be remembered, however, that these returns are made in March, and in most States only pigs six months old and over are reported. Hence none of this years' pigs are em­ braced in those figures. - ' |?HB January Popular Science Month §§phas an article from Herbert Spencer on "The Past and Future of Reli­ gion." ' His point of view is that reli- gion'has been developed in past times, and is to be still further evolved in the ooming ages, and his problem has been to find the fundamental law of this pro­ gress. This is stated with clearness and power in the forthcoming paper, whioh will finally be claimed as the scientific position on the subject. The ground taken is that religion is not destined to pass away, but that it will be purified and exalted with the further evolution of human nature, of which it fa an indestructible element. FARMKR GBOKSBECK, of Fishkill Plains, New York, thinking to play a • j^ke on the village doctor, sent for him in great haste. As the doctor's car. rifcge wheeled into the farmer's yard, he asked hurriedly to be shown the patient. The joker led him to the poultry house and pointed out a goose -with a broken leg. The doctor without • word immediately set the leg, left minute directions for the cure of the fowl, and saying he would call again in the morning, stepped into his carriage • and drove home. He kept up his at­ tendance until the goose could walk as lvell OH before the accident. In the meantime the farmer was having lots «f fun telling his neighbors of the joke. But he ceased to smile when the doctor brought in a good round bill. < At first the farmer refused to pay, but when legal proceedings were talked of he compromised the case to the doctor's satisfaction. Btowrrz is the Paris correspondent of the London Times. He is very much made fun of by the papers gen­ erally, but he still maintains his pom­ posity with serenity. He recently had • "personal interview with the Sultun, aad this is how he describes Abdul Ha- Slid: "He is slightly over middle bight, slim and rather thin; his com. plexion dark, his trimmed beard black, short and thick; his mouth resolute and • melancholy, his nose a Turkish one* large, long'- and bony, his eye dark, frank and penetrating, looks of great depth when the light falls on it. His forehead is broad, of average hight, slightly furrowed; the black hair below fez is short, almost close cut. Ab­ dul Hamid is 41 years of age, but looks ' elder, chiefly from having lost one of upper teeth. He speaks in a louder lone than Turks usually do; his voice i is sonorous, his enunciation distinct, J Mp sentences are long, but without J hesitation." NEW YORK Herald-. When the danc­ ing was about to begin at Mr. Vander- bilt's reception. Tuesday night, an odd- looking man walked into the ball-room, carrying two chairs. Hi» clothing was much the worse for wear, and he thought by those of the guests who noticed him to be a waiter. But the house servants quickly saw that the man had no business there, and seized him. The stranger seemed dumbfounded* The chairs were taken from him, and he was handed over to Detective Rog­ ers, of the Central office, who was on duty down stairs. The prisoner was arraigned in the Toombs Police Court. He described himelf as John Williams, of No. 17 West Eleventh street, but the name and address are supposed to be fictitious. The detective said he had no fomplaint to make against Williams, who seemed to be more of a simple- minded crank than a bold thief. Justice White discharged him. To Clerk Mc­ Afee Williams said: "I stood for hours on the sidewalk watching the dancing lights inside. I heard the soft music and saw the glarm of rarest jewels, and yet I did not long to enter. But sud­ denly a curtain was for a moment pulled aside, and the glimpse I caught of a bed of roses made me wild to get near them., I love flowers. I went to the door; it was open. I could smell the roses so plainly that, taking advantage of the absence of the doorman, I slip­ ped in, and picking up the two chairs, so they would think I was a servant, I went up stairs. I did not want to steal, but I did want to see the magnificent display of flowers. What I saw more than repaid me for the scrape I got into, but I wont do it again." & IBB COPIAH OUTRAGE. ° dacM at Kerw Orleans. [Washington Telegram to the Chicago later Oeaaa.] The Senate committee to investigate the Copiah County outrages left here ; corTOpT~^° that""of THE resignation of United States Judge McCrary because he can earn more money, live more comfortably, and generally get along better in the world as attorney for a railroad corporation than as a member of the National ju­ diciary, is suggestive, says the Chicago News. Certainly if any class of public servants ought to be well paid .it is the judges who maintain the honor and in­ tegrity of our National courts, and who have for so long executed that duty with such remarkable fidelity that at this day the bench of the United States ranks second to none in the world. But if their remuneration is to be so small that they are liable to be drawn off to serve private interests, what guaranty is there that the best men will be se­ cured for the positions; or, rather, what is there to insure us against a gradual and steady lowering of the judicial cali­ ber until the Ilnited States judges rank below county court judges of the fron­ tier communities? Of course no one wants to see the judges so highly sal­ aried that they may literally as well as figuratively go about clad in ermine. But what is clearly the duty of the National government is to fix their sala­ ries at a figure that shall be in some -measure commensurate to the income that men of their standing at the bar may reasonably calculate upon. It must be assured that before a man ar­ rives at the distinction of a National judicial appointment he has made a reputation for sterling worth and deep knowledge of law. It is not fair to ask such a man, who ma} have, and gener­ ally has, family ties, to retire from practice and abandon all hope of ac­ quiring enough property to endow his children, merely that he may have the honor of serving his country. Let the matter be remembered. last week for New Orleans, where it will hold its sessions. It was at first intended to hear the testimony at the scene of the outrages, but * Mississippi Republicans insisted that it would prove a farce, as the witnesses would not tell what they knew in the face of the bull­ dozing that must follow. It was then decided to go to Jackson, but as the Legislature is in session there the bull­ dozers would follow witnesses and have the moral encouragement of the almost unanimous Democratic body. So it was decided to take the witnesses to New Orleans, which is only half a day's ride on the cars, and hear their testi­ mony where they can be protected and will not be afraid to talk. A Mississippi Republican from that: section, in conversation to-day, said that the only witnesses that could be relied upon to speak out fearlessly were Mrs. Matthews and the brothers of her murdered husband. Said he: "Do you suppose that the hundreds of colored men in that mob-ridden oounty dare open their lips and speak the truth ? Not they. God help thera, their lot is bitter enough now without inviting fresh persecutions at the hands of their cruel tormentors. The only Way for the committee to secure reliable and valuable testimony is to guarantee every one safe transportation to a distant State and capital enough to start anew, for every moment spent in Copiah after giving his evidence would be perilous to his life and limbs. "The fate of the witnesses who testi­ fied before the Congressional commit­ tee in 1875 will be an effective warning to any one disposed to testify to the truth now. It will doubtless startle you to learn that nearly every Repub­ lican who testified then has either been killed or found it convenient to leave the State. I can't recall all the names Sst now, but here are a few: J. P. atthews, of Copiah County, was killed recently; so was W. H. Foote, of Yazoo County; C. W. Clarke, of Washington County, is nfw in Missouri; Chisliolm and Gillmer, of Kemper County, are dead, and the remnants of their families are here in Washington. "The Democrats will endeavor to es­ tablish the theory that Matthews was killed in self-defense; that Matthews had threatened to take Wheeler's life, and was in the act of carrying his threat into execution when his purpose was arrested by a well-directed load of buckshot. They will also doubtless furnish a mass of evidence to the effect that Matthews was a perpetual menace to society, an organizer of negro clubs, trained to do his bidding, and vote at his will; that the finances of the county were in danger of attack from his elec­ tion to office,and that honesty and good government depended upon the de­ struction of his political influence. To accomplish this there was but one way, to remove him on the Guiteau $lan, and it was, therefore, with a sigh of relief and a howl of joy that they hailed his killing in a personal encounter." The committee of investigation con­ sists of Senators Hoar of Massachusetts, Frye of Maine, and Cameron of Wis­ consin, Republicans; and Saulsbury of Delaware, and Jonas of Louisiana, Democrats. have not done 84A0ME& as toward corrupting the 4ocMfc0MKj|MiiN)ent reason that they have not had tie power to do so; MT in the State* ind aities where they have had control Of aflaira, their management has been quite as their opponents. Nay, in one respect it haa hem worse; for the shameless repudiation of public debts in many of the Southern States haa been in the mam their work, though there haa been aomediegradefcll̂ o6quet- ing with the repudiaters eat ifeepert of the Republicans. Then we aUk now what scandalous abuses have marked their reign in the city of New York, where they have had uninterrupted con­ trol for a whole generation, scandals which are by no means a tiling of the distant past. Nor has the party re­ deemed these acts by valuable cervices in the work of reform; on the contrary, it has in many cases opposed reforms which the Republicans carried into effect--The Century Magazine. How Trashy Plays Tell Against Pre Auctions of Real Merit. There is another field in which trash tells against worth in the conquest of public favor in astonishing proportion. Among the most popular plays now are those that some years ago would have been denied admission to the stage. They are made up of the most direct appeals to the sympathetic emotions as distinguished from the reasoning facul­ ties, usually being such affairs as the judgment condemns, while the senti­ ments, easily affected, approves. A successful play yields its proprietor anvwhere from $10,000 to $100,000 a year, though the latter figures, of course, cover the very rare exceptions. Profits of $40,000 a year on theatric enterprises are not uncommon. It will not do to say that good plays and good attractions do not succeed, for as a matter of fact they make, in the long run, the most money. But the phenomenal successes are the plays that, like the adroitly timed songs, become a "craze," either for their striking novelty or because of some factitious circumstances attending their production. The receipts from the performances of "Hazel Kirke," for example, have so far considerably exceeded $1,000,000, and it is yet by no ^neans worn out. Mr. Bartley Camp­ bell received in one year from two of his plays the sum of $04,000. He per­ haps receives more than that now. Other play writers sell their works out­ right, when the terms range from $2,000 to $10,000 for a play. There is still a cheaper class of plays, for which the terms are $100 to $500, for a play perhaps the work of three weeks. With these figures to eoeourage the aspirant for wealth and fame, it is small wonder so many rush into attempted competition with successful song writers and dramatists. But alas for credulous human nature. The successes are as one to a myriad of failnrea. The for- tune of the few is the ignis fatuus of the many. There are musical geniuses wliose songs "will never be sung* ana prodigies of playmakers whose writ­ ing will never be read. They may be more entitled to the forward place than those who get there; but the battle is not always to the strong nor the race to the swift. They who succeed are twice fortunate, fortunate in the chance and fortunate in happily availing them­ selves of it.--Jnler-Ocean. Who is the richest individual in the world?--Philadelphia JoumaL Tho ( ^ w man who is happiest with wnat ne naa. | than their opponents. To be A War Cry with Variations. The Democratic party, having loat its old principles and acquired no new ones, has been provided by the New York Sun and its imitators with a com­ pendious battle cry which needs no principles in the phrase "The Republi­ can party must go." Our vivacious contemporary repeats the sentence with the monotonous regularity of "Polly wants a cracker," which the new Dem­ ocratic war cry aptly resembles in ex­ pressing at once an ever-present appe­ tite and an earnest desire for its gratifi­ cation ; but in its constant repetition of this slogan the Sun fails to give its readers the benefit of the arguments which, in the next campaign, are sure to accompany this new versiou of the old Democratic creed, the party for the offices and the offices for the Demo­ cratic party. A very brief acquaint­ ance with affairs will enable our Demo­ cratic contemporaries at once to give information to their readers and point to their new cry after this fashion: The public credit was never higher-- the Republican party must go. No national debt was ever paid off faster--the Republican party must go. The currency of the nation was never in sounder shape--the Republican par­ ty must go. Manufactures have never before been more extended than under Republican protection--the Republican party must go. The Federal revenue was never col­ lected with less cost--the Republican party must go. The percentage of loss by official defal­ cation in the last ten years has been less than under any Democratic President from Jackscn to Buchanan--the Repub­ lican party must go. The Republican House in the last two yearsjreduced th«|burden of Federal taxation four-fold more than the Demo­ cratic majorities extending over six years--the Republican party must go. The Republican majority in Congress has passed a law which makes merit the test of admission to the public service-- the Republican party must go.--Phila­ delphia Press. The Democrats and the Presidency. The Democrats, being in opposition, must raise some issue or other in order to justify tlieir demand for a change of the government; and so they have started the cry that the Republican party is hopelessly corrupt, and that the first step toward a better state of affairs is to "turn the rascals out." 'Ihis cry was started almost simul­ taneously in various parts of the country, and the Democratic leaders apparently intend to make it the main issue in i884- But if t iey do they will, in our opinion, make a grave mis­ take. No one will deny that there are corrupt men among the leaders of the Republican party, or that there have been of late years scandalous cases of malfeasance in office, for which that party is mainly responsible. But when we are asked to turn the Republicans out as a step toward reform, the ques­ tion immediately arises--whom have we to put in their place ? Such a party as the Republican party now is would not long remain in power if there were a party of unimpeachable integrity to put in its place. But, un­ fortunately for the Democrats, the in­ tegrity of their party is by no means unimpeachable, and there is strong rea­ son to doubt whether they are a whit A Democratic Catechism. Q. Is it wrong--in the abstract--to interfere with the freedom of elections? A. Yes, it is wrong. Q. Is it not wrong--in the abstract-- to intimidate the members of any political party, white men or black men, whose only crime is that they propose to vote as they choose ? A. Yes, it is wrong. Q. Is the shotgun--in the abstract-- a legitimate argument to employ against your opponents in a political campaign? A. Certainly not. Q. And does the same remark apply to the bludgeon, the self-cooking pistol and the torch? A. It obviously does. Q. Why, then, are you opposed to the resolutions calling for an investiga­ tion of the alleged Danville and Copiah County outrages? A. Because it pain* us to see the bloody shirt waved. Q. Wherein consists the waiving of the bloody shirt? A. Any criticism upon the methods of Democracy in any of the Southern States is a waving of the bloody shirt. _ Q. Is this so, even if the criticism is founded upon perfectly trustworthy evidence in regard to the nature of those methods in Danville and Copiah County? A. Of course. Q. What, then, is tha whole duty of Republicans, especially colored Repub­ licans, in Danville, Copiah County, and in other portions of the South possess­ ing similar political advantages ? A. It is their duty, as patriotio citi­ zens, to abstain from voting the Repub­ lican ticket. Q. Explain the point more fully. A. Not to abstain from voting the Republican ticket in the places named offends the Democratic voters; to of­ fend the Democratic voters is to pro­ voke them to murder tho Republican voters; to murder Republican vo­ ters is--possibly--to prompt surviv­ ing Republicans, South and North,who lOve fair play and hate injustice, to pro­ test, and to protest is to wave the bloody shirt. Q. Does murdering men for their po­ litical opinions constitute a waving of the bloody shirt? A. Oh, no. Q. Does protesting against such murder constitute such a waving? A. Oh, yes. Q. When will the bloody shirt be permanently retired from circulation, A. Just as soon as all ^Republicans in sensitive sections of the South re­ nounce allegiance to their party and consent to take their"p6litics straight from the local Bourbons. -- New York Tribune. r A Mistake In the Gall. The attention of a member of the National Republican Committee has been called to the fact that, under the wording of the call for the Chicago Convention, it would be possible for a State committee to prevent the calling of district conventions. By the terms of the call, twenty days' notice is re­ quired for both State and district con­ ventions. But the district conventions cannot meet at an earlier period than fifteen days before the time fixed for the State conventions. Now, if the State committees should not issue their call so as to give any greater margin than the twenty days, by the time the call reached the district it would be too late to call district conventions. The members of the committee ad­ mit that the wording of the call is such as to admit of this kind of sharp prac­ tice, but they do not anticipate any 8UCWE8T10SS OF TALU* DILUTE EXOCRINE with lemon juice for whitening and softening the hands; alone it is stiefey and unpleasant. A BOSTO* physician recommends the wearing of rubbers without shoes, in­ doors, for persona Buffering from AN* matism. FIVE cents worth of gum-tragacanth dissolved in a little water, is better than mucilage or gum arabic; or a less quan­ tity for present use is available in a few minutes, NOTHING is better for whitening gar­ ments, particularly those that have be­ come yellow from being laid aside for several months, than a teaspoonful of borax dissolved in the rinsing water. To VAU cream rise pour the milk in­ to a broad flat dish so that the milk shall not be over an inch in depth, as the cream cannot rise well through a greater distanoe. Retain the cream in the milk by pouring the milk into a deep narrow vessel. SAVE pretty pictures and wood cuts, and paste in a scrap-book to please the children. Afterwards send to hospitals to give pleasure to '"nobody's children." Let the gathering be pleasant work for the children teaching them early to do kind things for others. A 8FPERIOR varnish that will protect the wood of saddle-trees from the ef­ fects of water, and also act as preven­ tive from injury by perspiration upon glue and joints, is made of one pound of amber gum, one pound of balsam of fir and one and one-half pounds of oil of turpentine. To MAKE starch for linen or cotton, stir one ouncc of the best starch into just enough cold soft water to make a thick paste, carefully breaking all the lumps. Add about a pint of boiling water, a little bluing «w»d a good sized lump of cut loaf sugar. Bring to the boiling point, and let simmer for half an hour, or boil hard for a less time, stirring it well to prevent its burning. When not stirring, cover to protect from dust, and when removed from the fire cover to prevent a scum from rising. EVERT bread maker has observed that the temperature at which her dough is kept while rising has a decided influ­ ence upon its quality. If it is kept warm, so that the process of fermenta­ tion goes on rapidly, the bread will be whiter and tenderer than if it is al­ lowed to rise in a low temperature. The little yeast plant with a long name flourishes best at a temperature of 72° and when it has abundance of sugar to feed upon. If no sugar is put into the dough the plant converts the starch of the grain into sugar and feeds upon it. sataatt I to i infallible that X The bill is w« ale wfll •fMvnrraiMiiitt* ta the Morrill tariff MIL and what would be thesCeetof the MB whioh has just been 1b- ILLlNOtS trouble from it. Ike RepubUcaae have not ImM any confer- sacs oa the Morrison bill, but they wfll prob- ably oppose it. Their main srguawat to that ft to a sutoMsl poller to at Rata the tariff eustaios when bwteees is Bevubltoea awrtw of the Ways aal M Goaamlttee, who la aa nationie pretss tioafst, says the Morrtaon Mil wltl be reported substantially to the form in whioh it waa in­ troduced. tor Beck Is quoted as asying that If the should paaa the right ktad of a bill be is that It would also peas the Senate, i thinks the Morrison bill aa fair a or committee action as oovld be (RewYerk Telegram.] i Brooklyn JEogle publishes an Interview Washington with Mr. Morrison la rela­ tion te the tart* prospects. He says thatthe Mil 1a his own, but claims it shonld be styled a reduction of tatea tatter thaa a revision ef the tariff: He to not satisfied with the scope of the Mil, but prepared to lannofc •omethlar he believed could be Boated th rough both Seaate and Bouee rather thaa risk the defeat of something more to hie own He says be Intends to get all the tariff reform he can out of this Oongreoa. He may fall to get anything, bitf ho proposes right along la what he ooaaideri tioa. One of Job* Morgan's Heroes. It is plain enough that hereafter the Democratic party in the North will be the tail to be wagged by the Democratic party in the South. The selection of Mr. Carlisle, a Southerner, as Speaker, ia supplemented by the selection of two other Southerners, one as Clerk of the House and one as Doorkeeper. Both of these gentlemen served on the Dem­ ocratic side of the rebellion, and one of them enjoys the proud distinction (we suppose it is proud) of having been one of John Morgan's men. The South is no longer only Bolid; it is dominant--in the Democracy at leash --New York Tribune. Disregarding A Democratic Behcet; When the Republican party wrested control of governmental affairs from Democratic hands there was no money in the Treasury, war was inaugurated, and business terribly depressed. Order has been restored out of chaos, finan­ cial stability has been brought about, the Government credit is restored, there is plenty of money, and prosperity and happiness reign. The pilms of the Democratic bosses are again itching to get at the money-boxes, and with one accord they yell. "The Republican party must go," but--it don't gfcff Huntington {Intl.) Herald. Political Notes. THE Republicans can carry Ohio next fall unless they muddle the situation meantime with side issues that are need­ less or local nominations that are em­ barrassing. The Republican candidate for the Presidency will get the electoral vote of the State if his name is Arthur, or Logan, or Sherman, or Blaine, or Gresham, or Harrison, or Hawley, or Fairchild.--Cincinna ti Commercial- Gazette., TIIEBE are a great many men in Con­ gress who would ardently support a resolution indorsing the ten command­ ments a3 general abstract propositions, and afterward vote against the enforce­ ment of every single one of them, seria­ tim. They go in for morality as certain Democrats go in for revenue reform-- with "incidental tneakage.«-J*MTO({ei> phia Record, the THE REAGAN BILL •ferity ef the Heme Opposed to It. Committee [Washington The House committee whioh la dealing with the subject ef interstate commerce, been sitting dally for over a week. The debate thus far develops the fact that a ma­ jority of the committee favors a commission and la opposed to the Beagan bill. The features of the Reagan bill which are earnestly opposed are substantially A Mormon Orphan. On the streets of Salt Lake, a benev­ olent looking old gentleman from Boston came up to a young boy of fourteen, who was crying hard enough to crack his wind-pipe; he was very shabbily dressed, bare-footed and alone, with the faintest trace of a last weeks bath just visible on his neck and arms "Why are you crying, my littlo boy?" asked the man. '"Cause dad's dead" answered the boy. "That's too bad. When did he die ?" "Two months ago." "Two months ago! Why, that is long time; you ought not to be crying now. You must have been very fond of your father?" "Well, no, can't say that I was, but you see he was the only one I ever had." "That's so, but you have a mother, have you not?" "No, they're dead too.9 "They? " "Yes. you see," said t1 his sobs, "we were ail Mormons, living- down in Southern Utah, where dad was a bishop, and, of course, had ifve wives Well, each one of them had a boy baby about the same age, and they were all named Brigham " "In't it strange to name them all alike?" "They always name the first one Brigham, if it is a boy, and," said he, "when we were about four years old, dad used to drive the little flock of Brighams down to the farm, and make us weed carrots. The farm was two miles from town, and one day, when we were alone, a band of Indians kidnaped the whole five of us, and took us away down into Arizona. The other boys got sick and all died, but they kept me with them five years, before I could escape, which, finally, I did, and got back homo. Well, when I got back, I didn't know my mother, or even her number, and she didn't know me; and they all claimed me as their little lost Brigham, So they had to draw cuts to see which should have me; and I was hers till she died--then the next, and so on. My first mother died a year aft­ er I got home; then I became the son of mother number two. She aposta­ tized, ran away and married a gentile; and was killed in a railroad collision. I lived with this mother a year-and-a- half. The third mother got hooked to death by a cow, six months after she had me. The fourth one died when I was thirteen, and my last mother got drowned six months ago. And now dad's dead. I tell you what's the mat­ ter, plister, they don't know what real sorrow is, till they've been an orphan, like me, six times. "That's so said the Boston man, as he wiped the dew from his "glasses" and handed the boy a "bogus" dime.-- Peek's Sun. - The Chances Mot All Goffjk Jerome A. Fillmore was born and reared on a rocky farm in Pennsyl­ vania, and he used to go to a country school in summer with bare feet and a straw hat with his hair sticking out of the crown. One day when he was about twelve years old, surveyors came by his father's farm with their tripods to survey the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. The boy looked on curiously and wondered what it meant. Next year the rails came and with them a locomotive. That was enough for the boy. He would neglect his chores and steal off to watch the lo­ comotive. Ho refused to study. He v.ould steal rides on the gravel train and associate with the workmen. When the road was completed and coal trains were put on. Jerome turned up missing. Active search was made and in a week or so the fat, sturdy boy was found. He was a brakeman on'a coal train at $25 a month as a starter. The station agent near his father's farm had put him on the road, and the old folks were furi­ ous, that was about twenty-five years ago. There is no need to follow the boy in his course. It was always up­ ward. He is now general superinten­ dent of the Central and Southern Paci­ fic Railroad system, and everywhere recognized and admired as one of the finest railway managers in the United States. His salary is $15,000 a year, and it would, perhaps, be doubled be­ fore he would be allowed to leave the company's service. Boys, the chances are not all gone by any meaiuk--Chi­ cago Herald. 1. Tho section which provides that the In­ former or proeecutor of a eaee for aay of the penal violations shall hive half of tho amount recovered. This, it Is claimed, will encourage an organized raid of spies, Inform­ ers. and tramps to molest tho operations of a road, not in the interest ef tho public, but for blackmail and personal Interest. S. That clause whioh prohibits a greatas oharge for a short than for a long haul Gonneasman Davla claiming that this la es­ pecially directed against the West, and that it will reduce the value of every farm In the North wee t. 8. That which prohibit* pooling of freights between competing V>ints. The disposition of the committee seema to be to say nothing about It, neither authorising it nor prohibit­ ing It. 4. The requirement to publish sohedulea which oannot be changed except on five days' notice. Congressman Davis makes one point against this--that' the Grand Trunk aad the Lake Shore, with Mew York Central oon- neotlen (neither of which routes oan be affected by the bill), could control all shl^ meats from Chicago east; or, in other word* that the other linea would be subject to such a contract aa these routes might Impose upon them. IMPORTED LABOR. Us Degrade* Condition--Krlla ef the iys- tem. [Waahington Dispatch to Cleveland HstaMLJ 1 for two or three days the House Commit­ tee on Labor have been engaged In taking tes­ timony on MM Importation, nadea eeetoap*. ef foreign labor. Sbme forty wttusesse have already been examined, representing trades unions In Ohie, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mew York, aad other States. The Inquiry Is with special reference to the bill Introduced early u tbe session by Representative Koran. Mr. ftonua says the Importation of foreign contraot labor has been growing within the pest four or live years, until the evils of the system have become unbearable, aad justice to our industrial classes demands a remedy by e(Sclent legislation. The testimony taken here has disclosed the degraded condition, physically and morally, of the people who come to this country from Italy, France Belgium, Hungary, and other countries by virtue of these contracts, under wh(oh they are paid 40 per tent, less wages than our own work­ men. They live in squalid poverty, ignoring In the habits of the sexes all ruies of decenoy and morality, and have a most demoralising effect upon the community in which they live. A notable Hluetratton is afforded by the wretfehed condition of 2,<r.K) Hungarians em­ ployed by the coke manufacturers at Union- town, Pa. Their wages are so small that every one who can earn a penny, man, wom­ an, or child, must work. Cases were cited of women being engaged in shoveling coke up to within twenty-four huurs of oonOuemont. Large numbers of glass-blowers have also been imported, to the great injury of that branch of Industry. POSTAL LAWS. Some Glaring Inooast*teaelesi<i In a brief report made by the Committee on Poatofflces and Post Koads of the Nationa^ House of Representatives, regarding a bill In* troduced by a Mississippi member, regulating the rates of postage on second class mail matter, some glaring inconsistencies in the present poetal laws are pointed out. Under those laws the publisher of a newspaper, la New Yore city, for example, can send his paper to a subscriber in Portland, Oregon, and have it taken from the pos;office there by a letter-carrier and delivered to the sub­ scriber at his houee at the rate of 2 oents per pound, without extra charge for delivery. Tho publisher, however, can not put a copy of his paper in the Mew York Postottice. have it taken thence by a carrier and delivered to a subscriber at his house in the city, oxoept at the rate of 1 cent per oopy--an Increase of several cents pejr ocpy. The Portland pub'lsher, in the same way. Is denied in bis own city the low rate gi en to the New York publisher. A foreign newspaper oan be brought to Waahington by steamer and railroa l. put in the city Post- office, given to a carrier, and by him de­ livered to any address In Waahington at the same rate as domestic matter of the same class, or Z oents per pound. The publisher of a Washington pater can not have his paper taken from the same Postofllce, by the came carrier, at the same time, and delivered to the same address, without paying t bout S cents per pound. 1 he committee recom­ mends the passage of the bill referred to, because it cures this patent fault in (be present law. THET MEAN BUSINESS. The Canal lien at Work, aad Confident of 8ne«eaa. The Hennepin canal men, saya a Washing* ton dispatch, are organizing for an active, aggressive oampalgn, and propose now to do some hard work. The leading lights of the movement at a nieetlnjr last week divided up the field for mis iouary labor. The i rst step is a thorouKh canvass of the House of Representatives to find out who are for, who are against, and who are IndiBerrnt to tho bil>. When this canvass is ooucpleie, there will be an organ­ ized effort to interest tlie indferent and con­ vert the opposlt on. Each active and inter­ ested advocate in and out of ( ongress will be assigned to th** duty of educating a given number of those who are tenoranuHfhe im­ portance of the scheme, and pdj^^Hng a given number of those wi.o do in its practical ity or oppose it fo^Sper rea­ sons. The entire House of Repreeth atives will thus be s-ub.ected to individual aad per* sonal inliuence, and the bill can be passed this way if at alL Its friends are verv hope­ ful. Mae. Ton THUMB, the widow In miniature^ li to starts dime museum In New York Two Mooraeroa inkers ship 719 loawee.ef bread dsfly to other towac. 'l*- Lawis romnau* of Jtoeatar, aoeMenuttlr fell into a weH aad was dsewasd. Bsv. ciAsut Scam, the ilamaa "bor preacher," iaeoadaetiaf arevtmtlathe &»- oatur Methodist Chnrch. Ftatmrs te at. Oair County be»learn pee-' pose eoMeetfnff'tbe collection ef sessments under the drainage act. WIUJAM Acs, the insolvent grt of Seeor, has been ail tied ..for ment. Robert Pattarson I'm inditing love letteie to under hte.charge. Principal Ovecacie, a mar­ ried man, was dismtoiM fWws his potftkm la the public schools of Macnn SrovBY L. CammKAw, of Jacksonville, while drunk, attempted te pull of his coot as he sat on the bed. Be fell backward, and, Mtfe- iag the foot-rail of another bed, broke his neck. THK Jollet Daily JVews Sheriff to satisfy the The liabilities are about tMMi. ae* the re­ ported assets about *?,500. The paver has been in existence for several year*. DCRIKO the temporary absence of Mrs_ Charles Joyce from her borne In Bast 8*. Louis, her S-year-old child struck her Infant brother, who was lying In a cradle, wtth a nursing bottle, the wounded babe dying the effects of the blow half aa hour later. N. J. WALLACE, L. L. Ha worth, Jesses Mil- liken, and W. C. Armstrong, of Decatur, re­ cently paid $00,000 for a coatroOlar Esterase in the Decatur coal mine. The comfaay esa- ployw ISO men. The property waa owned by Lincoln men. In Waddams township, near Freeport, Was. H. Hawkins h&ld up a cat by the tall Ser Adam Kraft to shoot. The latter accidentally slipped and fell, discharging the gun, and the load intended for the feline enteiMHawkins' side, killing him instantly. TBC Chicago Bridewell is not so bad a place to be, after all. During the eold weather noa only have the applications for pardon beset suspended, but the prisoners whose terms have expired have been permitted, at their earnest entreaty, to remain a while longer. IT took only three minutes for a Ch Jury to decide that when Andrew J. killed bis brother-in-law, William the night of Oct. 21 last, he did right. Pad­ docks, on the strength of a very bad record, went out to find somebody to kill, aad ended up a corpse, having been bulleted with hie own store of ammunllton. A woi>r made an attack upon Isaac Jewel while he was driving through Palertfoe grove, near Ana boy. He tried to scare It of, but the animal attempted to jump into the sleigh, when he whipped up h's horses aad fought It off with the whip--thus escaping. The continual sr.ow is beginning to mahe these animals ferocious. ' OKATI'R doctors have taken steps to have an ordinance passed by the Council that win shut out alleged quack doctor*. One notion of the ordinance to be submitted for approval provides that traveling medicine men wish­ ing to treat go-about patients in this commu­ nity shall pay a license fee of f60 a week to the City Clerk, the money thus realized to be given to St. Mary's Hospital. TUB family of Jacob Puderer, residing In Belleville, has been visited with a strange fatality, three adult members having died within three days. The first death was that of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Weber, an aged lady. On the same day Mr. Puderer, white descending the stairway at his residence, was seised with vertigo, s4 fell to the bottom, receiving such injuries to bis tplne as to oause his death. The same day word was re­ ceived from Waterloo announcing Mm death of his sister-in-law, aad that her body was route to Belleville for burial. A TOITNO man applied ta the Oounty Clerk In Chicago for a marriage license, giving his own name as Drahclr Nworb, and that of the young lady as Alleda Xocliw. Two days af­ ter the license was returned by the Rev. ¥. B. Em rich, who married the couple. Two young men applied to the Clerk for information about the marriage of Richard Brown and Adolla Wiloox. No such names could he found on the books. Subsequently a lawyer went over the volumes and found the names first given. Spelling them backward he saw that they were those of the parties. The nest day the parties, discovering that the asarriage was illegal, took out another license, and were married by a Justice of tho Peace. A MEETING of ex-sold!ers was held In Springfield, to make further arrangement* in regard to the dedication of Memorial Hall, at the State Hcuse, now being prepared for the consignment of the Illinois t attle flags- Gen. U. 8. Grant will bo invited to preside and deliver an address, and Adjustant Gen­ eral Elliott will give a history of the flags, or what in a legislative way has been done for them. The dedioatory address will be de­ livered by Gov. John M. Hamilton, which will be responded to on behalf of the soldiers by Gen. J. C. Black,' of Danville. In the evening a camp fire will be held In Kepi oeen tatlves' Hall, at which addresses will be de­ livered by representative Boldiera. It waa decided to have the exercises referred to oa the 26th of March. Is addition to the tlft.000 appropriated by the Legislature for the relief of the sufferers by the Braidwood disaster last February, there has been contributed from varloue sources in the State the sum of S37,410. Of this Chicago furnished f ^7,805. la add&on ta these sums $1,7(1.1 was contributed by the peo­ ple of other states, making the total relief subscription acknowledged amount to Wt,- »8. There has been expended $17,000 in re­ lieving the distressed survivors by distribut­ ing small amounts weekly, and by gt tog sums ranging from 8300 to #1,000 to wido .vS with families who desired to move to other localities. The £25,000 remaining will be used to provide simply homes for the twenty fam­ ilies remaining In Bra.'dwood, and for their maintenance until they can bscoine self sup­ porting. REV. IlKRNADixt WHIP, a Roman Catholic I ricst of Jollet, applied to the Attorney Gen­ eral to know whether Catholic convicts in the Penitentiary can be required to attend relig­ ious services which they are in conscience forbidden to attend. The Attorney General replied that the convicts in the Penitentiary have forfeited their rights under the law, ex­ cept such rights as are provided for criminals, and that, as the moral Influences of religion are what the State seeks to employ upon the louviets, and not its denominational teach­ ings, the authorities may provide such relig" •<Mi8 Instruction as they may deem best tor the noral improvement of the prisoners, and may compel their attendance oasuoh service. IT seems very much like "bringing coals to Newcastie" for Illinois and !owa farmers to buy corn outaide of these States for feeding purposes. But such is the fact at preseat. Farmers in the very corn bolt of Illinois--la Henry County, for example--are teporttaf thousands of bushels frcm Kansas for home use, and the same is true in seme counties te Iowa. The failure of last year's corn enp to these localities to the reason.--Otaaga Jtmrnal. fentusa expects to have a V . * >• tett.-e.,(«£*: ) ... li ^ jfeAk!*. ji